The workshop will explore four main themes: - The role and design of common European fiscal instruments; - The relative roles of market discipline and fiscal rules in incentivizing good fiscal policy; - The aims and design of European fiscal rules. - The role of national independent fiscal...

The aim of the conference is to bring together policy makers and researchers to discuss developments in counterfactual methods and applications of impact evaluation. The latter can cover a broad range of interventions, from labor and social policy to regulation and funding programmes, ideally...

The conference will be structured around five main topics: - Building a dynamic European labour market: transitions, human capital investment, mobility - Impact of the crisis on employment: "programme countries", wages, jobless households - Sectors with high job-creation potential: green...

The Conference will provide a forum for the first international academic debate on the Fifth Cohesion Report between regional studies researchers and senior officials from the European institutions. The key topics of the conference will be: the contribution of cohesion policy to Europe 2020, the...

"Beyond the Global Crisis: A New Asian Growth Model?" will provide senior officials, academia, and private sector participants an analysis of key issues related to Asia and EU as they emerge from the worst global financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression. The conference will be a...